Christmas '09

Steve and I spent our first Christmas together :) We sure are glad we got married before the holidays so we could spend them together.

We flew to Nebraska to spend the holiday with my family. My whole family stayed at my parents house...snowed in for five days! Five days of sleeping in, eating, playing games, and generally having a good time.

Each of us was in charge of meals for one day while we were there - Steve and I made my grandpa's family-famous crepes on our day.

My family managed to stretch Christmas out over three sessions: Christmas Eve afternoon, the kids opened all of their presents from the family. That night we did our Christmas Eve tradition: Dad read the Christmas story, mom had each of us read a special Christmas story, and we sang Christmas carols. Christmas Eve after midnight (after Santa had come...) we adults stayed up and opened all of our presents :) Christmas morning, the kids opened their Santa gifts and we all enjoyed what was in our stockings.


Thanks to the blizzard of '09, our Nebraska wedding open house didn't go as planned. For one thing, no one had been able to leave their houses for four days prior. The roads were closed and people were still snowed in! A few brave souls were able to get to the reception...You can see from the snowy pictures just how much snow there was! Dad and Henry finally made it outside that Saturday morning of the reception to dig us out :) I think I heard we got 28 inches of snow or something crazy like that. Even though very few people could make it to the open house, the food was tasty and I got to wear my dress again :)


The night before we left for Nebraska, Steve and I had our own Christmas :) The weekend before, we went and saw the Zoo Lights - kinda fun. A few animals were out that night as well. Steve got to pet the zebra... :) We made Christmas cupcakes for dessert that night and were able to give some away for friends and neighbors. The other picture in this collage is the score of Wii bowling - I know it's crazy, but I was uber-excited about my final score :)

Steve got me exactly what I wanted for Christmas - a jewelry box!! We were both very lucky to get to spend Christmas together and with my family. We're so-o-o excited and happy to be married and to have our own family now :)

In the Meantime...

Steve currently describes me as having an "itchy blog-trigger finger" - it's true! I'm finally on Christmas break and I desperately want to make time to create a post about the wedding, complete with pictures. But, alas, we're waiting on permission to use a few photos taken by friends and our professional pictures won't be ready until after the new year. So until then, here's a video our good friend Jeff made of our engagement photos. We're very happy with it :)

Steve And Sara's Engagement Presentation from midiman on Vimeo.

Weekend #1

We did it - we got married last weekend!! Everything was absolutely perfect! The weather...the guests...the food...the pictures...both the luncheon and reception...everything far exceeded our expectations. We couldn't have planned it better if we'd tried! Be on the look-out for a massive posting of pictures and stories in the near future...

In the meantime, we have been enjoying being married for the past nine days :) This weekend we were able to relax a bit, as well as go out and do something fun.

Steve and I realized that our first date ever - back when we were friends - was to a Jon Schmidt concert. That was five years ago. Our first official date when we were in the earliest stages of dating this time around was also to a Jon Schmidt concert, one year ago. Back then, I figured I was the easiest choice of a date. I knew Steve knew I liked Jon Schmidt as well and we were good friends...if he couldn't find a real date, it made sense to ask me as a friend :) Little did I know at the time that Steve had already decided to pursue dating me.

Friday night was our first date as a married couple. You'll never guess where we went...to the annual Jon Schmidt concert :) It was fabulous as always~I think it's now a yearly tradition for us.

We unexpectedly received Phoenix Coyotes tickets for Saturday night - it's a hockey team. Steve's Canadian - he loves hockey! We were lucky to have great seats...for free!

The Coyotes won :)

Yay for fun weekend activities as a newlywed couple :)